![]() ![]() I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. ― Doris Lessing, quote from The Golden Notebook Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself - educating your own judgements. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. ![]()
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![]() Two victims have already been discovered as the story opens, with a third awaiting discovery. ![]() Like Fish, French Landing's killer targets children and indulges in cannibalism of the bodies. The murderer is dubbed "The Fisherman", due to a conscious effort by the killer to emulate the methods of serial killer Albert Fish. Many nearby areas are mentioned, such as Onalaska, Sparta, and Madison or fictionalized, such as La Riviere for La Crosse, Arden for Arcadia, and Centralia, named for nearby Centerville, located at the intersection of Hwy 93 and Hwy 35.Ī chapter of the book is written around Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven".Ī series of murders has begun to plague the town of French Landing, Wisconsin. ![]() The town of "French Landing" is a fictionalized version of Trempealeau, Wisconsin. The novel is set in Straub's homeland of Wisconsin, rather than in King's frequently used backdrop of Maine. Black House was nominated to the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. ![]() This is one of King's numerous novels, which also include Hearts in Atlantis and Insomnia, that tie in with the Dark Tower series. Published in 2001, it is the sequel to The Talisman. Black House is a horror novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons - it all starting with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. If he can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team - a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. ![]() Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of a brand-new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author Jason Reynolds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It reminds me of another debacle of failed progressive narrative: the 2004 movie Crash. Room is being described as stunning, insightful, feminist: instead, I find that it sustains some of our culture’s worst assumptions about the bonds between mother and child, and about the shame that attends female sexual violation. Now that the novel has been adapted into a film, which is beautifully acted and directed, I am faced anew with that most frustrating of positions: being told that a cynical and dangerous story is in fact a progressive and radical one. The story of a mother and child as they first live in and then escape captivity (“Ma” was abducted as a teenager by a man named “Old Nick”), Room has troubled me since its publication. What’s not to love about a bestselling feminist novel about sex and motherhood?īut, reader, I hated it. After all, Room - a formally inventive story about domesticity and sexuality - falls into a category of books I love what’s more, Room asks us to perform the politically important task of closely examining women’s experiences of all those topics. EMMA DONOGHUE’S 2010 novel Room seemed like it was made for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Where would he even start?īetween supporting his mother through her bouts of depression, dealing with his estranged father, and navigating senior year as a transgender boy at a conservative Tennessean high school, his life is a lot to unload on strangers.īut after meeting easygoing Declan, Gael is welcomed into a new circle of friends who make him want to open up. Though his best friend convinces him to attend a meeting of Plus, a support group for LGBTQIA+ teens, Gael doesn’t plan on sharing much. Topic: Parent with depression and suicidal ideation From the publisher, "Seventeen-year-old Gael is used to keeping to himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As quickly as possible - as it is now apparent that Rama will speed past earth and back out of the solar system toward the unknown - an expedition is sent to investigate the amazing artifact. ![]() Christened Rama, the object is a massive cylinder, rotating rapidly on its central axis. What's more, close examination determines the anomaly could very well be artificial, a suspicion that is soon confirmed. In the 22nd century, an early warning system set up to protect the earth from devastating meteor strikes detects a large object hurtling our way at great speed. Written at a time when Clarke was still enjoying the rush of success from 2001: A Space Odyssey, this novel carries a similar, though markedly less metaphysical, sense of awe about the incalculable mysteries the human race will be confronted with amid the vastnesses of space. Tweets by indisputable SF classic that took home no fewer than five awards (among them the Hugo, Nebula, Campbell, and Jupiter) as the best novel of its year, Rendezvous with Rama is hard science fiction at its most fundamentally pure. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. All reviews and site design © by Thomas M. ![]() ![]() ![]() He grew up in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire and now lives in York. He has a degree in Business and Journalism. This passion has guided him all over Wales to visit a wide variety of historic sites, which he has photographed and researched for this book. Nathen Amin grew up in the heart of Carmarthenshire and has long had an interest in Welsh history and the Welsh origins of the Tudors. is proud to continue to share their contributions here with you. ![]() Though Simon, M.M., and David are gone, their gifted writing of history lives on. Sadly, three of our contributors have passed away. You will also find links to our contributor’s books available for sale, as well as their blogs and other interesting tidbits. ![]() You will find historians, biographers, novelists, actors, producers, teachers, bloggers, videographers, craftsmen, QAB’s web designer, QAB’s owner/administrator, and even Twitter’s Queen Anne Boleyn. Enjoy the listing of short contributor biographies below. ![]() extends our heartfelt appreciation to all of our ever-growing group of contributors. All talent shared and all contributions made are freely gifted by the website’s owner, web designer, guest writers and guest videographers for the enjoyment of QAB’s browsers. You will find no stores or advertisements here. is honored and privileged to highlight the giftedness, talent and knowledge of our contributors to the website. ![]() ![]() ![]() Audiences wavered between seeing these musicians as the rightful heirs of Austro-German musical culture and dangerous outsiders to it. While Germans and Austrians located their national identity in music, championing composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms as national heroes, the performance of their works by Black musicians complicated the public’s understanding of who had the right to play them. Yet on attending a performance of German music by a Black musician, many listeners were surprised to discover that German identity is not a biological marker but something that could be learned, performed, and mastered. ![]() Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, audiences assumed the categories of Blackness and Germanness were mutually exclusive. ![]() ![]() Through this compelling history, she explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in the concert hall. In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you discover the power of God's healing love, then fear, anxiety, anger and shame will stop sabotaging your happiness-and your life.Your best days are going to be your next days. It's the very deepest part of your humanity, the source of all treasure and talent.Refreshingly honest and keenly insightful, pastor and talk show host Gregory Dickow shows how your mindset is the single most powerful force in shaping your emotions, your decisions-and your destiny. ***************************************** Your Most Valuable PossessionYour soul, simply put, is your mind to think, your heart to feel, and your will to decide. ![]() ![]() Turn your pain into purpose and let God continue your winning story. ![]() " SINOPSIS : Your Most Valuable PossessionYour soul, simply put, is your mind to think, your heart to feel, and your will to decide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its philosophy for everyone, from the curious layperson to the professor whos seen it all. is an irreverent crash course through the great thinkers and traditions. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart take philosophy to task with flair and gusto in this wise and hilarious treasure of a book. And one for the existentialists you havent lived until you think about death all the time. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of is is. Lively, original, Heres an accusation Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. ![]() Heres an accusation Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. ![]() |